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Firm-Specific Human Capital as a Shared Investment: Comment

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  • Hessel Oosterbeek
  • Edwin Leuven

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Article provided by American Economic Association in its journal American Economic Review.

Volume (Year): 91 (2001)
Issue (Month): 1 (March)
Pages: 342-347

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Handle: RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:91:y:2001:i:1:p:342-347
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.1.342
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  • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
  • D33 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Factor Income Distribution
  • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts

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  1. Hashimoto, Masanori, 1981. "Firm-Specific Human Capital as a Shared Investment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 71(3), pages 475-482, June.
  2. Hall, Robert E & Lazear, Edward P, 1984. "The Excess Sensitivity of Layoffs and Quits to Demand," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 2(2), pages 233-257, April.
  3. Gary S. Becker, 1962. "Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 70, pages 1-9.
  4. Becker, Elizabeth & Lindsay, Cotton M, 1994. "Sex Differences in Tenure Profiles: Effects of Shared Firm-Specific Investment," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 12(1), pages 98-118, January.
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Cited by:

  1. Eric Strobl, 2004. "Do employers use education as a signal for ability in developing countries? Evidence from Ghana," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(4), pages 259-261.
  2. Kuckulenz Anja & Maier Michael, 2006. "Heterogeneous Returns to Training: An Analysis with German Data Using Local Instrumental Variables," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 226(1), pages 24-40, February.
  3. Rita Almeida & Marta Faria, 2014. "The wage returns to on-the-job training: evidence from matched employer-employee data," IZA Journal of Labor & Development, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 3(1), pages 1-33, December.
  4. Masanori Hashimoto, 2001. "Firm-Specific Human Capital as a Shared Investment: Reply," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 91(1), pages 348-349, March.
  5. Jacobs, Bas, 2007. "Real options and human capital investment," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 14(6), pages 913-925, December.
  6. Benedikte Bjerge & Nina Torm & Neda Trifkovic, 2016. "Gender matters: Private sector training in Vietnamese SMEs," WIDER Working Paper Series 149, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  7. Pieter Serneels, 2005. "Do Wages reflect Productivity?," Economics Series Working Papers GPRG-WPS-029, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
  8. Kenneth A. Counch, 2003. "Job Matching and Wage Growth in the U.S. and Germany," Working papers 2003-10, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
  9. By Barbara Mueller & Jürg Schweri, 2015. "How specific is apprenticeship training? Evidence from inter-firm and occupational mobility after graduation," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 67(4), pages 1057-1077.

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